Above: Embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko by Grigorii Timin & Dr Michel Milinkovitch
Lamproderma (slime mould) by Alison Pollack
A fly under the chin of a tiger beetle by Murat Öztürk
Breast tissue showing contractile myoepithelial cells wrapped around milk-producing alveoli by Dr Caleb Dawson
Blood vessel networks in the intestine of an adult mouse by Satu Paavonsalo & Dr Sinem Karaman
A long-bodied daddy long legs spider by Dr Andrew Posselt
Unburned particles of carbon released when the hydrocarbon chain of candle wax breaks down by Ole Bielfeld
Human neurons derived from neural stem cells by Dr Jianqun Gao & Prof Glenda Halliday
The growing tip of red algae by Dr Nathanaël Prunet
A liquid crystal mixture by Marek Sutkowski
Moth eggs by Ye Fei Zhang
A fluorescent single coral polyp by Brett M. Lewis
Agatised dinosaur bone by Randy Fullbright
Differentiated cultured mouse myoblasts with lysosomes by Nadia Efimova
Cross sections of normal human colon epithelial crypts by Dr Ziad El-Zaatari
A longitudinal section through a white asparagus shoot tip by Dr Olivier Leroux
A tail fin of a zebrafish larva with peripheral nerves and extracellular matrix by Dr Daniel Wehner & Julia Kolb
A network of white blood cells of an adult zebrafish by Dr Julien Resseguier
A bacterial biofilm on a human tongue cell by Dr Tagide deCarvalho
Human heart cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells by Hui Lin & Dr Kim McBride
